Fact-checking John Boehner on ‘Face the Nation’
The Republican House speaker made a rare Sunday show appearance.
The Republican House speaker made a rare Sunday show appearance.
The Daily Show posted a Vine Wednesday titled, "50 Fox News lies in 6 seconds." PunditFact and PolitiFact have fact-checked almost all of the statements they cited. See them all here.
"The Daily Show" presented 50 Fox falsehoods in a six-second Vine. We've fact-checked almost every claim. See them all.
While accepting an Oscar for a song from the movie "Selma" Sunday night, John Legend claimed that "there are more black men under correctional control today than were under slavery in 1850." PolitiFact Rhode Island fact-checked a nearly identical claim in December. It rates True.
Why Obama won't label ISIS 'Islamic' extremists
"You get one little minutiae wrong, in a long drawn-out sentence," said ABC and CNN political commentator Donna Brazile, "and all of the sudden you become a verb, you get PunditFacted."
"You get one little minutiae wrong, in a long drawn-out sentence," said ABC and CNN political commentator Donna Brazile, "and all of the sudden you become a verb, you get PunditFacted."
A pundit claimed that countries in Africa "have higher vaccination rates than here in the United States." Is that right?
A pundit claimed that countries in Africa "have higher vaccination rates than here in the United States." Is that right?
Timeline of Brian Williams' statements on Iraqi helicopter attack
Members of the conservative media took to Twitter last night criticizing our Mostly True rating of the claim that the Senate has already voted on more amendments in 2015 than it did in all of 2014. We explain our process.
Super Sunday brought talk about the spread of terrorists abroad and the spread of the measles back home.
Super Sunday brought talk about the spread of terrorists abroad and the spread of the measles back home.
MSNBC and CNN have improved ever so slightly on PunditFact's TV network scorecards, while Fox News has moved a touch in the opposite direction.